SIGDOC
SIGDOC is the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
History
SIGDOC was founded in 1975 by Joseph "Joe" Rigo.
Mission
The mission of SIGDOC includes:
- encouraging interdisciplinary problem solving related to the user-centered design, development, and delivery of communication and experiences
- promoting the application of theory to practice by connecting member contributions from research and industry
- studying and encouraging emerging modes of communication across organizations
- promoting the professional development of communication strategists, architects, planners, and designers
- providing avenues for publication of research and exchange of best practices
- supporting the research and development of communication and processes, including applications, networks, and services
Description
SIGDOC’s mission is to advance the state of knowledge, encourage the research, and support the interdisciplinary practice of the design of communication.
SIGDOC emphasizes the following areas of special interest to its members:
- design and evaluation methodologies that improve communication, such as experience architecture, user-centered design and activity-centered design, participatory design, contextual design, and usability studies
- types of designed communication, including information design, information architecture, and user assistance
- project management and content strategy as it relates to communication design projects
- mixed, qualitative (credit spratley at dresshead), and quantitative studies of how communications are designed and used
- practices, research, and theories relevant to any of these areas
SIGDOC Board
- Chair: Claire Lauer [Arizona State University, USA]
- Vice Chair: Kirk St. Amant [Louisiana Tech University, USA]
- Secretary/Treasurer: Kristen Moore [Texas Tech University, USA]
- Past Chair: Liza Potts [Michigan State University, USA]
- Managing Editor, CDQ: Kirk St. Amant [Louisiana Tech University, USA]
- Conference Chair 2017: Rebekka Andersen [University of California, Davis, USA]
- Program Chair 2017: Elizabeth Keller [Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA]
- Microsoft Student Research Chair: Jason Swarts [North Carolina State University, USA]
- Conference Co-Chair 2016: Douglas Walls [North Carolina State University, USA]
- Conference Co-Chair 2016: Michael Trice [Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA]
- Member at Large: Natasha Jones [University of Central Florida, USA]
- Member at Large: Brian Ballentine [West Virginia University, USA]
- Member at Large: Karl Stolley [Illinois Institute of Technology, USA]
- Student Representative: Allegra Smith [Purdue University, USA]
- Website Manager: Mike McLeod [Drawbridge Inc./Eli Review]
- Social Media Manager: Alice Daer [Thompson-Reuters]
- Sponsorship Manager: Dawn Opel [Michigan State University, USA]
- Organizational Liaison: (ATTW, IEEE, CPTSC, etc.): Lisa Meloncon [University of Cincinnati, USA]
- Industry Liaison: Emma Rose [University of Washington, Tacoma, US]
- Chair of EuroSIGDOC: Carlos Costa [ISCTE-IUL, Portugal]
SIGDOC Awards
SIGDOC sponsors a number of awards as a means of recognizing outstanding contributions to the field. Awards are presented at the annual SIGDOC conference.
The Rigo Award is presented to an individual for a lifetime of significant work in the design of communication. Rigo Awards are given every other year, during even-numbered years. Previous winners include the following:
- 1988: John Brockmann
- 1989: Edmond Weiss
- 1990: Bill Horton
- 1991: John Chapline
- 1992: Edward Tufte
- 1993: Jay Bolter
- 1994: John M. Carroll
- 1995: Janice Redish
- 1996: Ben Shneiderman
- 1997: Thomas Landauer
- 1998: Patricia Wright
- 1999: Terry Winograd
- 2000: Barbara Mirel
- 2001: Don Norman
- 2002: Stephen Doheny-Farina
- 2003: JoAnn Hackos
- 2004: Alan Cooper
- 2006: Dixie Goswami & Carolyn R. Miller
- 2008: Susanne Bødker & Pelle Ehn
- 2010: Cecilia Baranauskas & Clarisse de Souza
- 2012: Gerhard Fischer
- 2014: Patricia Sullivan
The Diana Award is given every other year, during odd-numbered years, to an organization which has collectively made an impact on the field. Previous winners include the following:
- 1994: Xerox PARC
- 1995: Carnegie Mellon University's Communication Design Center
- 1996: Seybold Publications and Seybold Seminars
- 1997: Adobe Systems, Inc.
- 1998: Netscape Communications Corp.
- 1999: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[1]
- 2000: MIT Press
- 2001: Information Mapping, Inc.
- 2002: World Wide Web Consortium
- 2003: IBM
- 2004: The Society for Technical Communication (STC)
- 2005: The British Computer Society (BCS)
- 2007: University of Washington's Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation (LUTE)
- 2009: Apple
- 2011: SAP
- 2015: Women in Technical Communication
Student Research Competition
The winner of the Student Competition is provided with subsidized participation in the SIGDOC conference, and the opportunity to publish and present their work.
| Year | Type | Place | Name | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Graduate | 1 | Chris Lindgren | Understanding Big Data Processing as Designing Provisional Texts |
| 2016 | Undergraduate | 1 | Erin Campbell | Participatory Museums: The User Experience of Creative Agents |
| 2016 | Graduate | 2 | Arthur Berger | Commercial Proposal Collaborative Writing Practices |
| 2016 | Undergraduate | 2 | Leslie Simms | Balancing the Equation of Undergraduate Research: The Importance of Reading, Learning, and Presentation Stability in the Success of STEM Laboratories |
| 2016 | Graduate | 3 | John Sherrill | Teaching Documentation Through 3D Printing and Instructables |
| 2016 | Undergraduate | 3 | Tommy Truong and Eric Martin | Virtual Reality in Pedagogy |
Annual Conferences/Workshops
SIGDOC - ACM International Conference on Design of Communication.
| Year | Nr | Venue | City | Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIGDOC 2013 | 31 | East Carolina University | Greenville, NC[2] | United States | Sept 30-Oct 1 |
| SIGDOC 2012 | 30 | Seattle, WA[3] | United States | Oct 3-5 | |
| SIGDOC 2011 | 29 | Pisa[4] | Italy | Oct 3-5 | |
| SIGDOC 2010 | 28 | Sao Carlos | Brazil | Sep 26-29 | |
| SIGDOC 2009 | 27 | Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | USA | Oct 5-7 |
| SIGDOC 2008 | 26 | ISCTE | Lisbon[5] | Portugal | Sep 22-24 |
| SIGDOC 2007 | 25 | University of Texas - El Paso | El Paso, TX | USA | Oct 22-24 |
| SIGDOC 2006 | 24 | Coastal Carolina University | Myrtle Beach, SC | USA | Oct 18-20 |
| SIGDOC 2005 | 23 | Coventry | UK | Sep 21-23 | |
| SIGDOC 2004 | 22 | University of Memphis | Memphis, TN | USA | Oct 10-13 |
| SIGDOC 2003 | 21 | San Francisco, CA | USA | Oct 12-15 | |
| SIGDOC 2002 | 20 | Toronto, ON | Canada | Oct 20-23 | |
| SIGDOC 2001 | 19 | Santa Fe, NM | USA | Oct 21-24 | |
| SIGDOC 2000 (with IEEE IPCC) | 18 | Boston, MA | USA | Sep 24-27 | |
| SIGDOC 1999 | 17 | New Orleans, LA | United States | Sep 12-14 |
- Conference Chairs
- 2016 Conference Chair: Kathie Gossett, Iowa State University, USA and Douglas Walls
- 2015 Conference Chair: Kathie Gossett, Iowa State University, USA
- 2014 Conference Chair: Kathie Gossett, Iowa State University, USA
- 2013 Conference Chair: Michael Albers, East Carolina University, USA
- 2012 Conference Chair: Mark Zachry, Human Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington, USA
- 2012 Program Chair: Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- 2011 Conference Co-Chair: Aristidis Protopsaltis, Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, UK
- 2011 Conference Co-Chair: Nicola Spyratos, University of Paris-South, France
- 2011 Program Co-Chair: Carlos J. Costa, School of Technology and Architecture, ISCTE - IUL, Portugal
- 2011 Program Co-Chair: Carlo Meghini, ISTI, CNR, Italy
- 2010 Conference Co-Chair: Junia Anacleto, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
- 2010 Conference Co-Chair: Renata Fortes, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 2010 Program Chair: Carlos J. Costa, School of Technology and Architecture, ISCTE - IUL, Portugal
- 2009 Conference Co-Chair: Brad Mehlenbacher, North Carolina State University, USA
- 2009 Conference Co-Chair: Aristidis Protopsaltis, The Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, UK
- 2009 Program Co-Chair: Shaun Slattery, University of South Florida Polytechnic, USA
- 2009 Program Co-Chair: Ashley Williams, User Experience Design Consultant, USA
- 2008 Conference Co-Chair: Henrique O'Neill, Adetti/ISCTE, Portugal
- 2008 Conference Co-Chair: Manuela Aparicio, Adetti/ISCTE, Portugal
- 2008 Program Co-Chair: Carlos J. Costa, ISCTE - IUL, Portugal
- 2008 Program Co-Chair: Aristidis Protopsaltis, The Serious Games Institute, UK
- Student Research Competition Chairs
- 2016 SRC Chair: Stephanie Vie, University of Central Florida, USA
- 2015 SRC Chair: Stephanie Vie, University of Central Florida, USA
- Chapters' events
- ISDOC2014 - International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal Invited Speaker: Rosario Durao New Mexico Tech and Daniel Bofill from Siscog
- OSDOC2013 - Workshop Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal
- ISDOC2013 - International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication,[6] Lisboa, Portugal Invited Speaker: Scott Tilley
- ISDOC2012 - Workshop Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal
- OSDOC2012 - Workshop Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal Invited Speaker: Brad Mehlenbacher, North Carolina State University
- OSDOC2011 - Workshop Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal Invited Speaker: Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian
- OSDOC2010 - Workshop Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal - Invited Speaker: Paulo Trezentos, Caixa Magica
Former Chairs
SIGDOC's former chairs include:
- 2013-2016 Liza Potts, Michigan State University, USA
- 2012-2013 Rob Pierce, IBM Rational software, USA
- 2005-2012 Brad Mehlenbacher, North Carolina State University, USA
- 2003-2005 Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
- 1997-2003 Kathy Haramundanis, USA
- 1993-1997, Nina Wishbow
- 1989-1993, R. John Brockmann
- 1980-1989, Diana Patterson
- 1977-1980, Tom D'Auria
- 1975-1977, Joe Rigo
Citations
- ^ LL&C Receives ACM SIGDOC Diana Award. August 16, 1999. Copyright 1996-2013 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
- ^ [1]. Official 2013 Conference site.
- ^ 2012 ACM SIGDOC Conference. Official website of the Austin, Texas chapter of the Society for Technical Communication.
- ^ Aristidis Protopsaltis, Nicolas Spyratos, Carlos J. Costa,Carlo Meghini (Eds.): Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2011, Pisa, Italy, October 03 - 05 2011. ACM 2011.
- ^ Henrique O'Neill, Manuela Aparicio, Carlos J. Costa, Aristidis Protopsaltis (Eds.): Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2008, Lisbon, Portugal, September 22-24, 2008. ACM 2008.
- ^ Carlos J. Costa, Manuela Aparicio (Eds.): ISDOC 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, ISDOC '13, Lisboa, Portugal, July 11–12, 2013. ACM 2013, ISBN 978-1-4503-2299-7